Groundhog Day

There are certain traditional editorial cartoons I like to draw. Christmas cartoons, New Year's Day, Labor Day, Groundhog Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Veterans Day, Valentine’s Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Mother's Day, Father's Day and that annual phenomenon, the pothole cartoon. I’ve never seen the streets and highways in such bad shape. There’s even an electronic DOT sign on I-91 that says “Rough Road Ahead.” It sounds like the title of a country song but it’s warning drivers that the right lane looks like the cratered surface of the moon. What this all means is that come spring, we’re going to sit in...

Some people are calling it the Groundhog Day Superbowl. Others, noting that both states, Washington and Colorado, have legalized pot are calling it the Superbong. Either way, it’s rare when two great national holidays combine on the same day. Groundhog...

With Independence Day just behind us and Labor Day not far away, this is the heart of parade season. And not only does everyone love a parade, as the old song goes, there are parades varied enough for everyone to love. In Connecticut they range from the...

I am so completely pessimistic and cynical about this country being able to pass any meaningful gun control laws as long as the right to bear arms is sanctified, enshrined and beatified by the United States Constitution. To end the gun culture we have...

There are certain newspaper traditions I love and one of them is drawing
editorial cartoons during the Christmas season. There's an abundance of
metaphors to use even when the news is bad, and that's almost all the time

A year ago, the season's first dusting of snow veered east over Cape Cod and the forecasters were reassuring. Take heart, snow lovers, they said. Your day will come.
It did. Over and over again, with back-breaking, bone-chilling, roof-flattening...

And on this week's episode of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival ...
As attendees happily filed into the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday for the second and final weekend of the Goldenvoice-promoted Coachella Valley Music and Arts...

When Rob Rogers woke up the morning of Dec. 8 and looked at an ominous weather forecast predicting several inches of snow or the threat of freezing rain, he knew exactly where he wanted to be.
The 24-year-old Hampden resident rushed to his computer,...

Best known for his work on the Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs," Mike Rowe has a resume that may surprise some viewers. Besides doing on-air work as a host for the home-shopping channel QVC and voice work in commercials for companies such as...